prosecutors may make a determination that if they only want to go forward with cases that are easily won when you look past the narrow issue of clapper and you look at the long period of president obama's tenure for eight years which is only now beginning to come under the kind of scrutiny i felt it deserved a long time ago what you see been a longstanding pattern and practice of harnessing the machinery of the fearsome machinery of the u.s. federal state against enemies of the obama administration and in favor of friends of the a bomb in a straight shooter that's the larger story or not simply whether clapper should be prosecuted for the one instance that's admitted where he did lie under oath to congress. russia as a defense ministry has released a video of tests of his latest missile systems among the new weapons is the hypersonic kinja or dagger missile which can go ten times the speed of sound and is said to be capable of outsmarting all currently existing defense systems and then

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is aussie international a swedish zoo was receiving death threats for the controversial practice of culling healthy animals those who is director of those says it's regrettable but necessary .

yeah i think it's the best way of taking care of the animals he said to let them fleet. and sometimes i got so. and sometimes we need to euthanize. the so really you go with. the think animals shouldn't get killed in the field animals but i've been through that says several times that it's a beautiful place and i take my kids you know this is true it is a regrettable this leads to q. and a. but that is no reason why owns the rights to the fish that is terrible for those people just don't understand how to run a zoo just on a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital the presidential elections here

in this country are less than a week away would we speak to one of the content. told me it's so also not accepted the bed wetter than russia and all that and us is deciding maybe of what chairman companies all european companies are investing in or which infrastructure we all building intra mini or and injure up i

think it's a tremendous it's a european decision. but the politicians to do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to listen. to going to be for us to see what the full story in the morning can't be the full i'm interested always in the lives of my colleagues. first sit. good to have you with us today for the program it is exactly seven days until the

presidential election here in russia and he is starting its special coverage. here. because if you think you know. yes i will check out because i don't know it's. really made before but it doesn't seem like. much but with the get the feeling it was a little risky anyway you don't get it but. i'm sure. which . one on the chin that.

you said he just didn't look at your. stupid look at. it did you put up with him go to sleep over the significance of that surely you. would be. we spoke exclusively to one of the hopefuls popular in the candidate for the communist party is a fifty seven year old director of a fall and his left wing platform proposes nationalizing big industries and banks. about some of the pressing issues facing russia and its society. terrorism terrorism it appears in places where people live in poverty and an environment for terror groups to develop first and foremost we must get rid of such environments people must be employed if a man has a job with a decent wage and cares for his family he won't become

a terrorist if he has no job and has fallen for certain doctrines imposed on him he becomes easy prey for terror recruitment i'm talking about the domestic situation as for terror groups existing outside of the country we must fight them very hard the good guy should be strong and pull no punches. personally i think the european union pictures russia is a threat in order to consider a date its internal policies i'm getting the impression that the e.u. authorities present russia as the enemy to consolidate themselves while doing so they're lobbying for defense spending why would you unleash an arms race if you already have a lot more weapons than we have and your military budget is bigger than ours i believe someone wants to escalate an arms race even more and for that reason it must be shown that there is some sort of threat in existence.

we can put this issue to a referendum but i can tell you ninety nine percent of russia's population will be against same sex marriage it's certain so why raise the issue it's like asking muslims whether they'll eat pork they won't although in many other states people eat pork and there's nothing wrong with it but muslims won't be doing it in russia people have certain moral norms and we must consider this fact so as of today we don't have any grounds even to propose the issue of same sex marriage to our nation throughout the week i will be introducing you to russia's presidential hopefuls and how they view the future of the country on the world and on sunday march eighteenth join us for our special coverage of election night live on r.t. international. the independence movement in catalonia shows no sign of dying down five months on from that referendum that was branded illegal by the spanish

government. forty five thousand protesters attended a rally in barcelona on sunday calling for a new government that will work towards catalonia secession from spain people charted their support for the for my cattle and president has put him on a he and four other separatist leaders are currently out of the country and could face prosecution if they return home and demonstrators also demanded the release of local politicians jailed for their roles and last october's vote after the referendum madrid imposed direct rule on catalonia jonathan shafi from the radical independence campaign says the spanish government is failing to uphold democratic rights i think what the spanish government is attempting to do is to gain people and of course it's still not the number one we start to see in. the in the but always has been to try and strangle the mood. by using b.d.s.

. next. strangle the possibility of establishing an end and we have to look at this and actually start to question what democracy really means and the european context i have not seen enough internationally which i have proceeded piñon when it comes to what's going on in past what it means not only to get the situation on which in what you had in peace in jail you have championed us and joined the saudis and in who's been next as be anointed was the leader and that had won a parliament and even we'll its leave the jail on monday to a team that beat has been ruled by the spanish supreme court so what democracy is under attack in very obvious ways and it's important that the international community the e.u. and protect your rights to stand up on the state of democratic delegates and it's not doing. a group of fraudsters has been busted in some petersburg for selling fake passports though fake not in the way you might expect.

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the future for what. it's. going to go to a reminder now of our breaking news from syria here on r.t. international terrorist and rebel groups occupying the enclave of eastern just outside damascus have reportedly started fighting each other that's according to the russian reconciliation center for syria it says the infighting began off to one of the rebel groups who was urged to separate from al nusra terrorists in exchange for negotiations on conditions for their safe passage out of the area the reconciliation center says the fighting is taking place right now on the streets of east and forcing civilians to seek cover from the crossfire when we get the updates here at odyssey you get them so. for the meantime though your news continues in a half an hour.

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host broker a deal with the north koreans will the deep state allow him also is the world entering a new trade war. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor or leverage he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have of course dimitri bob and she is a political analyst we spoke make international or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated what start out well. that was the phrase nixon went to china is trump going to metaphorically go to korea what i find really remarkable me go to victor first is that i think he did this all on his own he didn't tell anyone and the reaction from his own administration they were caught flat footed and of course the media is dead set against it because well they're

a front for the for the deep state what's going on here because of course tillerson who have sense as much of his trip to he took it all in africa yes right after yes . and it's actually good that he you know if you met with. in the theater piers the as they were planning who knows what who would have been accused of what they are but with the you know it's clear first of all it's questionable whether the trip will happen. considering all kinds of all sorts of circumstances of course for the real deal cleary's ation of the korean peninsula to happen the united states would have to do two things first of all it would have to give guarantees of nonaggression against north korea which is the point of wanted all along yes but there was going to use would have to be they wouldn't just be words because everyone knows how much words are worth considering what the united states did to iraq to libya and to other countries that got rid of their weapons of mass

destruction in syria so yes so what would north korea want in exchange for denuclearization it would want the united states to withdraw its troops and pieces from south korea and of course a recognition of north korea as an independent state and boy on both counts the united states is not willing to compromise so i had it in my introduction will the deep state allow him mark ok i want to toss the other alternative you on there it is entirely possible that trump went out on his own in the deep sea it is our fight there is another possibility south korea north korea just had a very successful. we'll you know first blush bring of detente with this joint a limbic team and they're talking to each other they've agreed on a meeting in the d.m.z. between the two the two leaders and russia and china russia working with north korea and china working with south korea seem to be playing some type of tag team

to facilitate a process and there's some evidently some real substantial things are actually being discussed about security guarantees and so on among the koreans among the curry that we have mentioned on the show multiple times that we think that the u.s. needs to butt out of this process of the korea's need to keep the u.s. out of the room this may be a chance for the u.s. deep state to interject itself back into a process that was bearing too much fruit and they need to have a number of american. put on what is a finger prints all over it and sabotage it to make sure that there is no agreement between a south korean president who seems all too eager for them on reaching some type of peaceful agreement when or if you know there's a lot of wiggle room here because. it's saying the obvious the trump is unconventional but he basically was replying to an initiative through another

intermediary i mean there was no letter ok we don't know the terms and conditions and that allows actually trampin the north koreans and the south koreans a little bit of wriggle wiggle room because they say we didn't actually say that but what i find very interesting is that trump startled the deep state by saying this because there are no preconditions there were always preconditions for talks and then his despair dispensed with that which is really the real news here right well it's amazing that the american press did not criticize when he called him going on a secret poppy when he. said there appears a rocket man on a suicide mission that's perfectly alright that's not what one good right when he said that we have no choice volatile tautly doesn't roll but i think it really started we thought it was bad taste yes bad policy let's make that is exile and now these seeds but portis you know when just a glimmer of hope or

a dialogue has appeared there's already a huge danger why is there a united states pres behaving like that because it is for that i do or would you or neo liberal is now conservative which is basically one thing for me it in terms of foreign policy destruction of mankind is not a huge misfortune break in or making a compromise they had serious fortune how can we let this get off the cool that's the most terrible thing for them nor the destruction of the korean what's really interesting here and i think our viewers are the ones who watch it on a regular basis is that the it doesn't matter what president is in the white house they don't want a piece on the korean peninsula that doesn't have the permission of the deep state in reading the complete collapse of north korea right well i mean the interesting thing is here is that you know there is talk of unification there's always been talk of you reunification but under whose term. of the don't want

compromises because the end of stant that compromise between north and south korea would mean that the united states would no longer have reason to keep its bases in south korea and go all of the united states or the deep state of the american establishment east get to keep those troops and bases in south korea they're not there so much against north korea but against china and it's a huge footprint it's also called the uk it's also cost to russia's far east and so . my colleagues have said here before the deep state is very much against this to in the me still have a very good chance to have that to mean that it's very interesting here even though mark the thing is the dilemma that faces the deep state is it. if there is an outcome in the hypothetical. on the korean peninsula with the initiative on the side of the koreans that sends

a message to the entire region the japanese are going to say oh so what conditions in which you withdraw from your troops from from japan the philippines we're going to have taiwan see it is a dilemma a domino effect a domino effect but you know the thing is is that you know i always when i used to teach european history is that you know why did the first world war start it started because of prestige you do not want to lose prestige you know the united states would lose a huge element of prestige in that very important country in that entire region and they they they if that's what keeps them up at night i think there's a degree of us as always concerned with prestige there in secure about their self-proclaimed leadership position and over the world but in pursuit of germany they need to keep south korea as as their client state they need to keep their military bases there they've got ballistic missile defense these fat systems in

south korea now and. the threat of an of an independent united korea historically korea has stronger ties with china and greater animosity with japan however right small amount that is that would be a break in the u.s. containment of china that they cannot allow so they they can't allow this go for this is why i think the deep state is actually trying they are behind all of this trying to interject in the process i think they know for what trump was doing now quietly from what i understand south korea talking with china china has been talking about russia and china providing some security guarantees to. north korea and south korea has been making some promises that under theoretically you know far down the road in the event of reunification korea wouldn't join any anti chinese eight zero designs targeting the the ad and they've also promised to

limit the number of systems not allow any more to be erected you know if you know what's really interesting here is that you know again our viewers may not know this is that under extreme security conditions in south korea an american for star general is in charge of the entire military operation of south korea there are new south koreans that want their sovereignty back to be able to make sovereign decisions for their own country their own people and you know it's the people to the north they're related to them they're the same people here all right here and again this is going to be sending messages to other groups and politicians in asia there are within this web of military bases that the united states is created in the pacific there are people in japan will say we should take care of ourselves we're a rich country and then of course we could through their arms it's just been trying to kill us forces and exactly you know it now over time. i think that the united

states are afraid that south korea will. go all the way over iraq i mean look at iraq yeah they let the russian planes through into syria without the iraqi government taking the decision i mean we don't know exactly how it was taken probably it was iranian influence probably something else but the rock has shown a certain deal wolf sobering and they write to a foreign minister last week was in russia and he was received at a very high level why because it's so very in country they have shown it so if south korea goes the same world as it seemed to be going on the president came to june i'm glad he is a success so normal it looked like south korea was becoming a sovereign country tell you that there is a development in the room but you know mark brings up a really good point here victor is that if there is some kind of progress among the koreans here it could easily backfire against the americans when they when they when they're saying hey we're a sovereign state and we can make sovereign decisions this is where you know we're

going to hit a brick wall here and of course the koreans both of them north and in the south they do not want a war of course they don't want to be here before just like the vietnamese just like the germans they do not want to kill the show that they do not want kind of thousands of millions of casualties and of course the only side that would be ok with that to some degree would be the united states because they do not really care . i mean one of the most outrageous things to say i mean this is how empire thinks ok it has no scruples and has no morality ok i got to jump in here mark we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion and some real new stay with our. kids.